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Finding a place in history : the Chora Monastery and its patrons / Robert G. Ousterhout.
Fine Arts Library NA5870.K3 O97 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ousterhout, Robert G., author.
- Series:
- Conferences annuelles Levention musée municipal de Nicosie ; 26.
- Annual lecture ; 26th.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kariye Camii (Istanbul, Turkey).
- Art, Byzantine--Turkey--Istanbul.
- Art, Byzantine.
- Architecture, Byzantine--Turkey--Istanbul.
- Architecture, Byzantine.
- Mural painting and decoration.
- Mosaics.
- Church decoration and ornament.
- Christian art and symbolism.
- Mural painting and decoration, Byzantine.
- Mosaics, Byzantine.
- Turkey--Istanbul.
- Mosaics, Byzantine--Turkey--Istanbul.
- Mural painting and decoration, Byzantine--Turkey--Istanbul.
- Christian art and symbolism--Turkey--Istanbul--Medieval, 500-1500.
- Church decoration and ornament--Turkey--Istanbul.
- Mosaics--Turkey--Istanbul.
- Mural painting and decoration--Turkey--Istanbul.
- Istanbul (Turkey)--Buildings, structures, etc.
- Istanbul (Turkey).
- Buildings.
- Christian art and symbolism--Medieval.
- Physical Description:
- 65 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 21 cm.
- Other Title:
- Chora Monastery and its patrons
- Place of Publication:
- Nicosia [Cyprus] : The A. G. Leventis Foundation : Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia, 2017.
- Notes:
- "The Chora Monastery in Constantinople is one of the oldest (1077-1081) and best preserved monastic establishments in the Byzantine capital, founded and supported by members of the imperial family and the Byzantine aristocracy. It constitutes one of the masterpieces of Byzantine Art and is renowned for its rich mosaics and mural decoration. The surviving mosaics in the nave and the wall-painting in the burial chapel point to the ingenuity and aesthetic sensibility of the Monastery's last ktitor, Theodore Metochites. Metochites (1270-1332) had been a pioneering intellectual and one of the most powerful and richest men in the Empire. Himself an author and patron of the arts, and a man with a strong personality, he contributed decisively to the formulation and establishment of a new visual art vocabulary in the time of the Paleologues. Ousterhout looks at Metochites' achievements in relation to the previous patrons of the Chora Monastery: Isaak Komnenos, son of Alexios I (1081-1118), and nun Melania, sister of Andronikos II Paleologue (1282-1328). The two patrons, and Metochites, are depicted in the narthex of the church."--Leventis Municipal Museum website."In memory of Constantinos Leventis."
- "In memory of Constantinos Leventis."
- "26th annual lecture, 1 November 2017."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9789963732272
- 9963732275
- 9789963560141
- 9963560148
- OCLC:
- 1019872315
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